I love the character of James Bond. I feel like over the course of 20+ movies, we've seen him evolve and change, and the movies they put him in become a sign of our times. One of the best James Bond movies of all time was Skyfall, which I felt like revolutionized the character and created expectations around Bond that we have never seen before. Today, I want to dig into one of my favorite scenes from that movie. Let's dive in. Silva's Introduction in 'Skyfall'For me, the best scene in Skyfall is Raoul Silva's introduction.Not only does it give us a legendary Bond villain, but it also changed the way we perceive Bond and understand the world in which he works. A Masterclass in Tension Tension is hard to build in a screenplay, and yet this scene just compiles it on top of one another, and waits for us to release it. It unfolds in a long, unbroken tracking shot as Silva (played by Javier Bardem) emerges from an elevator at the far end of a vast, empty room and slowly walks towards a captured and bound James Bond.As he walks, Silva delivers a chilling monologue about his grandmother's island, which had become infested with rats. He explains how they caught the rats, turned them against each other, and watched as they devoured one another until only two remained. These two, now cannibals, were then released back into the wild. He concludes by looking at Bond and saying, "They...
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